EP Review: Cell Press - Cell Press (2020)
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Cell Press - Cell Press
Release Date: November 27, 2020
Label: No Funeral Records / Ancient Temple Recordings
Format: Cassette / Digital
Length: 24:20
Genre: Noise / Sludge
Origin: Montreal, Canada
Alix Lambert's documentary "The Mark of Cain" displayed a brutal insight to the reality in Russian prisons. The images that film provided are the origin to the Québécois quartet Cell Press' name, The self-titled debut EP by the band which was founded in 2019 musick the atmosphere of Lambert's documentary. You might assume that we are not talking about Easy Listening or Smooth Jazz here.
Cell Press are Mark McGee (drums), Joey Cormier (bass), Sean Arsenian (guitar and vocals) and PQ (vocals). Their EP is a savage and brachial melange of Noise and Sludge with some influence from Hardcore Punk, Metal and insanity. Maybe some Powerviolence, too.
I can tell, the band had a lot of fun creating and recording those five tracks. Yet, the feeling they produce predominantly, is claustrophobia. I have not watched the documentary by Lambert, but I can imagine a dark prison cell crammed with delinquents of all sort and a warden slamming his baton against the bars when listening to the EP.
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"Cell Press" does not really contain much coherence. And honestly, that does not bother me a bit. Each of the five songs stands for itself, and as nightmarish they are, it is a lot of fun listening to them. There are two tracks on the EP that need special mentioning. First, there is 'Desert Breath' which the band called an inverted 'Immigrant Song' and features a line from Woodie Guthrie at the end. And then there is the eleven-minute long track 'My Son will No [sic] the Truth' at the very end of the tape. This one is the result of drummer Mark playing a long-ass solo while being stoned. The other band members added layer by layer to this recording, and while doing that they only listened to the layer previously recorded. The result is a weirdly awesome jam.
Cell Press' debut is a noisy, sludgy work of nihilism and musicked claustrophobia. This release is punk as fuck.
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